Will irregular menstruation result in a weak positive test?

Whether menstruation is normal is closely related to women's physical health, especially the health of the reproductive system. Therefore, women need to pay more attention to their menstrual conditions in daily life. If irregular menstruation occurs, timely adjustment should be made. Some women may test weakly positive with a test strip before menstruation, which makes them very strange. So, will irregular menstruation test weakly positive? Let’s take a look.

In general, there are two types of results for early pregnancy test strips: drop urine into the detection hole on the test strip. If a colored band appears in the control area of ​​the test strip (some test strips appear red, some test strips appear blue), it indicates a negative result, indicating that you are not pregnant; conversely, if a clear colored band appears in the detection area, it indicates a positive result, indicating that you are pregnant. However, early pregnancy test strips can only be used as a preliminary screening test and you should never rely on them too much.

1. If the test paper you purchased is stored for too long (more than 1 year), improperly stored, refrigerated, or exposed to moisture, it may become ineffective and result in a false negative test result.

2. If the pregnancy has just begun, or there is an ectopic pregnancy, the HCG level in the body is generally low. The urine to be tested needs to be left to stand for more than 3 minutes (usually only 1 minute is needed), and careful identification is required to determine whether there is a weak positive result - the color band in the test area only appears faintly.

3. In extraordinary cases, such as hydatidiform mole and choriocarcinoma, the HCG level in the body will be too high and the urine test will not show a positive result.

4. After 3 months of pregnancy, HCG levels decrease and urine tests may sometimes show negative or weak positive results.

5. A positive result does not necessarily mean pregnancy. Because in addition to trophoblastic cells that can secrete HCG after pregnancy, some tumor cells such as hydatidiform mole, choriocarcinoma, bronchial carcinoma and renal cancer can also secrete HCG. For example, patients with endometrial hyperplasia may have a positive urine HCG test.

Therefore, do not rely solely on an early pregnancy test to determine whether you are pregnant. To be on the safe side, you can test again after 3 days. Of course, the most reliable thing is to go to the hospital for a comprehensive examination in time, especially those with weak positive results should pay more attention to this so that measures can be taken.

1. Tear open the aluminum foil bag along the notch and take out the pregnancy test stick when using.

2. Put on the disposable plastic film gloves included in the box, hold one end of the handle of the pregnancy test stick tightly with your thumb, and tilt the end with the urine suction hole downward. Note that the observation side of the pregnancy test stick should face downward and the plum blossom pattern should face upward.

3. Aim at the urine suction hole on the side of the pregnancy test stick and urinate, allowing the urine to pass through the urine suction hole, and maintain the urine collection time for 1 to 2 seconds (please note that urine should not wet the observation window when collecting urine! Otherwise, the pregnancy test stick will become invalid).

4. Then turn the pregnancy test stick over so that the observation window is facing upwards, and continue to hold the pregnancy test stick at an angle. When you see purple-red liquid crawling across the observation window, purple-red lines will appear on the observation window within 1 minute. The pregnancy result can be read after 1 minute, and the non-pregnancy result must be confirmed after 3 minutes. The result read after 5 minutes is invalid! Urine samples at any time are suitable for pregnancy test sticks. If you are in early pregnancy, morning urine is best.